Abstract
Abstract Article XII addresses finances and taxation. The 1802 Ohio Constitution had given the General Assembly virtually unqualified power to tax, but the 1851 Constitution limited the state’s taxing powers and ended the common practice of financing private corporations—a practice that many believed contributed to the debt crisis that resulted from the construction of the state’s transportation system. Voters have amended Article XII fourteen times, more times than any article save Article VIII, which deals with public debt. Commentators have described Article XII, and Ohio’s tax system in general, as “a hodge-podge of sacred cows” and “constitutional provisions and statutes resulting from the demands for revenue and the pressures for exemption.”
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